{"id":2444,"date":"2024-11-06T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2024-11-06T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:01:19","slug":"eu-commissioner-candidate-roxana-minzatu-cleared-by-romanian-lawmakers-despite-property-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"EU commissioner candidate Roxana M\u00eenzatu cleared by Romanian lawmakers despite property controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Romanian Parliament committees for foreign policy and European affairs on November 5 gave a favourable opinion to <strong>Roxana M\u00eenzatu<\/strong>, who was proposed for the position of European Commissioner from Romania. M\u00eenzatu will also serve as a vice-president of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The vote in Romania&#8217;s Parliament was preceded by the publication of an investigative report showing M\u00eenzatu purchased her house in Brasov for a mere EUR 17,000 and allegedly expanded it without an authorisation &#8211; particularly necessary as the building was registered in the historical patrimony.<\/p>\n<p>Roxana M\u00eenzatu, who is to hold the &#8220;People, skills and training&#8221; portfolio and occupy the position of executive vice-president of the European Commission, highlighted, after the hearings, that Romania is for the first time at the top of the leadership of the Community Executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/economedia.ro\/roxana-minzatu-a-primit-aviz-favorabil-pentru-a-fi-comisar-european-in-comisiile-de-specialitate-ale-senatului-si-camerei-deputatilor.html?mc_cid=bd4b019d74&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economedia.ro<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the home, she said the building is a formerly nationalised building that she has always lived in and eventually managed to buy it. She pointed to her husband for more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snoop.ro\/comisarul-european-minzatu-casa-monument-istoric-nationalizata-cumparata-cu-17-000-euro-de-la-stat-si-extinsa-fara-autorizatie-de-constructie\/?mc_cid=bd4b019d74&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snoop.ro<\/a>, the publication that revealed M\u00eenzatu&#8217;s alleged property issues, also commented on her political and professional pedigree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aged 44, Roxana M\u00eenzatu has a 24-year career as a member of the Social Democratic Party. She obtained her first party membership card during the time of Adrian N\u0103stase and Ion Iliescu in 2000, at the age of 20.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00eenzatu graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, English department in 2002, and between 2003 and 2005, she completed her education with a master&#8217;s degree in European Integration at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University.<\/p>\n<p>The first political position obtained with the help of the party was that of county councilor for Bra\u0219ov, between 2004 \u2013 2008, at the age of 24.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/George Calin)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romanian Parliament committees for foreign policy and European affairs on November 5 gave a favourable opinion to Roxana M\u00eenzatu, who was proposed for the position of European Commissioner from Romania. M\u00eenzatu will also serve as a vice-president of the Commission. The vote in Romania&#8217;s Parliament was preceded by the publication of an investigative report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}